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U+0656 · ARABIC SUBSCRIPT ALEF

Arabic Subscript Alef

  • CodepointU+0656
  • NameARABIC SUBSCRIPT ALEF
  • Decimal1622
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptArabic
  • CategoryMn — Nonspacing Mark
  • Unicode version4.0 (2003)
  • Bidi classNSM — Nonspacing Mark
  • Combining class220 — Below
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0656 (◌ٖ) is ARABIC SUBSCRIPT ALEF, a non-spacing combining mark in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 4.0 (2003).

As a combining mark it has no advance width of its own and attaches to the preceding base character. Type or paste the base letter first, then this mark. Its canonical combining class is 220 (Below), which normalization uses to order stacked marks. See combining diacritical marks.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D9 962 bytes
UTF-1606561 code unit
UTF-32000006564 bytes
HTML decimalٖ
HTML hexٖ
CSS\656in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0656
JSON\u0656
Python\u0656
Python\N{ARABIC SUBSCRIPT ALEF}by name
Java / C#\u0656
C / C++\u0656universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{656}
Go\u0656
Ruby\u0656
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1622)
URL-encoded%D9%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0329◌̩Combining Vertical Line Below U+1CDC◌᳜Vedic Tone Kathaka Anudatta
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0650◌ِArabic Kasra U+0651◌ّArabic Shadda U+0652◌ْArabic Sukun U+0653◌ٓArabic Maddah Above U+0654◌ٔArabic Hamza Above U+0655◌ٕArabic Hamza Below U+0657◌ٗArabic Inverted Damma U+0658◌٘Arabic Mark Noon Ghunna U+0659◌ٙArabic Zwarakay U+065A◌ٚArabic Vowel Sign Small V Above U+065B◌ٛArabic Vowel Sign Inverted Small V Above U+065C◌ٜArabic Vowel Sign Dot Below